Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2 by Joseph Grego

Graces!'_ From erasures in the date of this plate it seems probable that it was originally issued ten years earlier. As the title indicates, this sketch is a broad burlesque of the deportment displayed by the frequenters of a suburban ball-room. The awkward and ungainly carriage of all the figures is amusingly exaggerated. A master of the ceremonies, the expression of whose features is complicated by a decided squint, is briskly performing the rites of his office and introducing a cobby little gentleman as a partner to an angular and misshapen spinster, who, in consulting _the graces_, has thrown her Gothic frame into an absurdly constrained and affected posture.